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Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
Nonprofit•Arlington, Virginia, United States•
About: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is a nonprofit organization based out in Arlington, Virginia, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Poison control & Crash. The organization has 136 authors who have published 521 publications receiving 26016 citations.
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TL;DR: The injury severity score has changed little in the past decade, but the number of hospital admissions and the severity of the injuries has changed significantly.
Abstract: THE INJURY SEVERITY SCORE: AN UPDATE SUSAN BAKER;BRIAN O'NEILL; The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care
1,405 citations
TL;DR: Patterns of risk among teenage drivers form the basis for graduated licensing systems, which are designed to promote low-risk and discourage high-risk driving.
725 citations
TL;DR: When drivers use a mobile phone there is an increased likelihood of a crash resulting in injury, and using a hands-free phone is not any safer.
Abstract: Objectives To explore the effect of drivers’ use of mobile (cell) phones on road safety. Design A case-crossover study. Setting Perth, Western Australia. Participants 456 drivers aged ≥ 17 years who owned or used mobile phones and had been involved in road crashes necessitating hospital attendance between April 2002 and July 2004. Main outcome measure Driver’s use of mobile phone at estimated time of crash and on trips at the same time of day in the week before the crash. Interviews with drivers in hospital and phone company’s records of phone use. Results Driver’s use of a mobile phone up to 10 minutes before a crash was associated with a fourfold increased likelihood of crashing (odds ratio 4.1, 95% confidence interval 2.2 to 7.7, P < 0.001). Risk was raised irrespective of whether or not a hands-free device was used (hands-free: 3.8, 1.8 to 8.0, P < 0.001; hand held: 4.9, 1.6 to 15.5, P = 0.003). Increased risk was similar in men and women and in drivers aged ≥ 30 and < 30 years. A third (n = 21) of calls before crashes and on trips during the previous week were reportedly on hand held phones.
626 citations
TL;DR: Although both fragility and crash over-involvement contributed to the excess death rates among older drivers per VMT, fragility appeared to be of over-riding importance and measures to improve the protection of older vehicle occupants in crashes should be vigorously pursued.
504 citations
TL;DR: Men had a higher risk than women of experiencing a fatal crash, while women had higher rates of involvement in injury crashes and all police-reported crashes.
445 citations
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| Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allan F. Williams | 65 | 246 | 12833 |
| Stephen Lyman | 59 | 231 | 11548 |
| Dennis R. Durbin | 48 | 185 | 7496 |
| Bryan Reimer | 41 | 230 | 5723 |
| Anne Taylor McCartt | 39 | 113 | 5386 |
| Adrian K. Lund | 36 | 108 | 3746 |
| C. Raymond Bingham | 36 | 83 | 4315 |
| Richard A. Retting | 33 | 69 | 4099 |
| Leon S. Robertson | 32 | 109 | 3143 |
| Charles M. Farmer | 32 | 65 | 2982 |
| Paul L. Zador | 31 | 63 | 3695 |
| Susan A. Ferguson | 30 | 54 | 3718 |
| Joann K. Wells | 28 | 63 | 2311 |
| Elisa R. Braver | 26 | 56 | 3956 |
| William A. Leaf | 20 | 31 | 1437 |